It is difficult to think of Eqbal Ahmad in the past tense. As I look at his words, I hear his lilting accent and mellifluous voice ringing in my ears. Eqbal was very fond of Urdu poetry and used it as a tool of analysis. One of its main motifs is paradox. So, I write with a mixture of joy and sadness. Joy that we have this book and sadness that Eqbal is not with us. I remember the gleam in Eqbal’s eye and his enthusiastic response when I first proposed doing a series of interviews for a book. The idea had great appeal to him. He had written the introduction to ne Pen and The Sword, my book with Edward Said. I And he was familiar with my work with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.2 More than that, we met in a curious way, albeit he was older, on the same “kinare” or riverbank. I always felt a connection with Eqbal. I had spent some time in South Asiaand spoke his language, Urdu, and shared his appreciation of and admiration for Indo-Islamic culture. [download]
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